President Donald Trump last year directed the Interior Department to make changes to parks, monuments and memorials to address any “false revision of history.”
We also need something to prevent a president from outright disobeying court orders. The fact the president can ignore the supreme court without any consequence is too big a threat to the system of “checks and balances.”
We have it unfortunately we’re not using it effectively. Though several people have tried individually to no success.
But ultimately again this falls into the category of dealing with the symptoms of the state instead of the problem of the state itself. The best solution to the presidency is the same as the solution to the state. Not to have one.
It was the creation of Simple Minds who had only ever known monarchs and mercantilism. It wasn’t perfect and they knew it. But they would be aghast to see how we treated it as if it was. They were on the right track. But they fell into old familiar traps. Recreating similar positions of power. And allowing it to calcify and entrench itself. No one is worthy or capable of wielding that much power.
We also need something to prevent a president from outright disobeying court orders. The fact the president can ignore the supreme court without any consequence is too big a threat to the system of “checks and balances.”
We have it unfortunately we’re not using it effectively. Though several people have tried individually to no success.
But ultimately again this falls into the category of dealing with the symptoms of the state instead of the problem of the state itself. The best solution to the presidency is the same as the solution to the state. Not to have one.
It was the creation of Simple Minds who had only ever known monarchs and mercantilism. It wasn’t perfect and they knew it. But they would be aghast to see how we treated it as if it was. They were on the right track. But they fell into old familiar traps. Recreating similar positions of power. And allowing it to calcify and entrench itself. No one is worthy or capable of wielding that much power.